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Ye're a swate crayteur," continued he, winking at the woman; "but sure yer petticoats is mighty short, an' yez want a pair of stockin's bad, too; but nivir mind yez stand well upon thim illigant ankles 'dade ye do; and yez have a purty little futt into the bargain." "Que dice?" "He is complimenting you on the smallness of your feet," answered the Frenchman.
"I've done de same ting often myself, an' nivir knew it to fail," said the younger man, who, it appeared, was the son of the veteran sealer. "But how did you get clear finally?" asked Regnar. "De ould capten dat was drownded de oder day was mate den. He was a wild young chap, but smart an' able. He tould de capten to rig one of de pumps, and pump some of de oily water out of de hold.
"What a funny man!" I exclaimed. "He's all that," said the boatswain sententiously. "An' the strangest thing av all is, that whin he's done kickin' the tins about an' has vinted his passion, he'll come out av his panthry as cool an' calm as a Christian, an' do jist what ye wants him, as swately as if he'd nivir bin in a timper at all, at all. Jist watch him now." It was as Tim Rooney explained.
"She was comin'," she said, "to her own darlin' b'y, from whom she'd been parted manny a year, believin' him dead, or Tom Whelan had nivir touched hand o' hers." The bearer of the news had but just arrived, and he told it only to the Chief Trader and Pierre. At a word from Pierre the man promised to hold his peace. Then Pierre went to Wonta's lodge.
Ye'll have the best; an' the room 'll be yours at onct, so it will; an' ye'll not go back to bed again in that frozen hole." "But I assure you I assure you," persisted Russell, most earnestly, "it's a noble room a comfortable room a splendid room." "Oh, sure ye're too modest, so ye are," said the chief. "But nivir ye moind lave it all to me. I'll fix it for ye."
"Nivir a word truer by song or by book, and stand by the text, say I. For Papist I am, and Papist are you; and the imps from below in y'r fingers whip poker is the game; and outlaws as they call us both you for what it doesn't concern me, and I for a wild night in ould Donegal but Pagan, wurra! whin shall it be, Pierre?" "When shall it to be?" "True for you.
Linden to his room, and then returned to the library. "Mrs. Barnes, there's a young man inquiring for you," said Jane, entering. "Send him in, Jane." The visitor was Dodger, neatly dressed. "How are things going, Mrs. O'Keefe?" he asked. "Splendid, Dodger. Here's some money for you." "What for?" "You're to go to Chicago and bring back Florence." "But she isn't there." "Nivir mind.
"She was comin'," she said, "to her own darlin' b'y, from whom she'd been parted manny a year, believin' him dead, or Tom Whelan had nivir touched hand o' hers." The bearer of the news had but just arrived, and he told it only to the Chief Trader and Pierre. At a word from Pierre the man promised to hold his peace. Then Pierre went to Wonta's lodge.
"Young I may be with a glint o' grey at me temples from a night o' trouble beyand in the hills; but I'm the man, an' the only man, that's climbed to the glacier-top God's Playground, as they call it: and nivir a dirty trick have I done to Injin girl or any other; and be damned to you there!" "Sometimes I think you are as foolish as Shon McGann," compassionately replied the half-breed.
Teddy Flynn used to say to me, says he: 'Niver born to know distress! Happy as worms in a garden av cucumbers. Seventeen years in this country, Mary, says he, 'an' nivir in the pinitintiary yet. There y'are. Ah, the birds do be singin' to-day! 'Tis good!